Now in its 39th season, the Lillian and Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series offers outstanding chamber music experiences to the Clemson campus and community at no cost. In 2020, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson discovered the unpublished manuscript of a forgotten, 127-year-old octet by Boston-based composer Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) in the archives of the Library of Congress. Johnson spent a year reconstructing the octet’s score from the 75-page manuscript, creating the first critical edition of the music, which a stellar lineup of soloists will perform. Score for two clarinets, harp, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, the prject was profiled in a full-page spread in the Washington Post, named BBC Music Magazine’s “Chamber Choice,” as well as one of the “Best Classical Albums of 2024” by The New York Times, Gramophone, Apple Music, The Times and Tidal. *Q&A following the performance, open to the public.